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Boulevard de la Cité-des-Jeunes (Gatineau) Boulevard de la Cité-des-Jeunes begins on the outskirts of the city. Chemin de la Mine becomes Boulevard de la Cité-des-Jeunes and Boulevard de la Cité-des-Jeunes later becomes Promenade du Lac des Fees after meeting with Boulevard Saint-Raymond (near the hospital).
Boulevard de la Zone Boulevard de la Zone is a street in the XIIIe arrondissement] of [[Paris named from the historical military zone. It has been planted with trees for much of its length of 515m and has an average width of 8m.
Boulevard du 30 Juin The Boulevard du 30 Juin ("Boulevard of June 30th") is a major 5-km road in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa. It is the city's main transport artery, connecting the southern area of La Gombe (Kinshasa's political and business district) with Kintambo and the Bay of Ngaliema to the west.
Boulevard Fournier (Gatineau) Boulevard Fournier is a main route in the city of Gatineau, Quebec that connects the Gatineau and Hull sectors. It starts as the extension of Boulevard Greber in the old city of Gatineau and ends at the entrance of the downtown core where it becomes Boulevard Maisonneuve which connects the Portage Bridge towards Ottawa.
Boulevard Haussmann Boulevard Haussmann running from Paris VIIIe to Paris IXe arrondissement, 2.53 km long, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards driven through Paris during the Second French Empire by Baron Haussmann, who retained the complete confidence of Napoleon III.
Boulevard Lakefront Tour Currently in its 18th year, the Boulevard Lakefront Tour is presented by the law firm of Schwartz Cooper. Nearly 2,200 riders participated in 2005, including several hundred who pedaled the new 62-mile (100 km) Chicago Cycling Club Metric Century.
Boulevard Maisonneuve (Gatineau) Boulevard Maisonneuve is an important arterial in the heart of downtown Gatineau, Quebec. It serves as connector route between the Portage Bridge from Ottawa to Quebec Autoroutes 5 and 50 as well as Boulevard Fournier towards the Gatineau sector of the city, northern portions of the Hull sector and the northern east suburbs.
Boulevard Mall Boulevard Mall, which opened in 1962, is a shopping mall located at the western edge of the Town of Amherst in Erie County, New York, USA. The name derives from its location on Niagara Falls Boulevard (US Route 62), which divides Amherst from the Town of Tonawanda.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song) "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was the second single from Green Day's seventh studio album, American Idiot. Released in 2005, the single peaked at number two in the United States, becoming Green Day's first and only top-five single, and their most successful single to date.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (song) Boulevard of Broken Dreams was a 1934 hit song by Al Dubin (words) and Harry Warren (music), set in Paris. The narrator says "I walk along the street of sorrow/The Boulevard of Broken Dreams/Where gigolo and gigolette/Can take a kiss without regret/So they forget their broken dreams.
Boulevard of Broken Songs Boulevard of Broken Songs was a popular mash-up mixed by San Francisco, California, DJ and producer Party Ben in late 2004. The mix consisted of elements from Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", Oasis' "Wonderwall", Travis' "Writing to Reach You" and Eminem's "Sing for the Moment" which itself samples Aerosmith's "Dream On".
Boulevard Ring The Boulevard Ring, russian: Бульварное кольцо, is a circular boulevard in the centre of Moscow, Russia. The ring is actually not a ring, it is just half-of a ring; beginning next to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and ends at the Yauza River.
Boulevard Saint-Germain The Boulevard Saint-Germain is a major street in Paris on the Left Bank (south side) of the Seine river. It curves in an arc from the Pont de Sully in the east (the bridge at the edge of the ĂŽle Saint-Louis) to the Pont de la Concorde (the bridge to the Place de la Concorde) in the west and traverses the 5th, 6th and 7th arrondissements.
Boulevard Saint-Joseph (Gatineau) Boulevard Saint-Joseph as an important commercial boulevard in the former city of Hull, Quebec (now Gatineau). It runs from Boulevard Alexandre-Tache to the boundaries of the city of Gatineau and the suburban town of Chelsea, Quebec.
Boulevard Saint-Laurent (Gatineau) Boulevard Saint-Laurent is a major street located in downtown Gatineau, Quebec. It starts at the intersection of Rue Laurier heading west towards the Lac-des-Feés Parkway where it will connect with the extension of Boulevard de l'Outaouais.
Boulevard Saint-Michel The Boulevard Saint-Michel is one of the two major streets in the Quartier Latin of Paris (the other being the Boulevard Saint-Germain). It is a tree-lined boulevard which runs south from the pont Saint-Michel on the Seine river and the Place Saint-Michel, crosses the boulevard Saint-Germain and continues alongside the Sorbonne and the Luxembourg gardens, ending at the Place Camille Jullian just before the Port-Royal train station and the avenue de l'Observatoire.
Boulevard Saint-Raymond (Gatineau) Boulevard Saint-Raymond is a major boulevard located in Gatineau, Quebec. It starts at Boulevard Saint-Joseph and ends at Boulevard Alexandre-Tache just west of the limits between the Hull and Aylmer sectors.
Boulevard Solitude Boulevard Solitutde is a Lyrisches Drama (lyric drama) or opera in one act by Hans Werner Henze to a German libretto by Grete Weil after the play by Walter Jockisch, in its turn a modern telling of François Prévost's Manon Lescaut. The premiere was on February 17, 1952 at the Landestheater, Hanover.
Boulia, Queensland Boulia is a town in Central West Queensland, Australia. It is located approximately 296 kilometres by road south of Mount Isa, and lies on the Burke River, which was named after the explorer Robert O'Hara Burke who passed through the area with the Burke and Wills expedition in 1860.
Boulter's Weir Boulter's Weir is a weir, looked after by the lock keeper, at Boulter's Lock in Maidenhead in the English county of Berkshire, and just downstream from Marlow. It is one of the most popular whitewater freestyle kayaking play areas on the River Thames, after Hurley Weir.
Boulton and Watt The firm of Boulton & Watt was initially a partnership between Matthew Boulton and James Watt, formed in 1775 to make steam engines at their Soho Foundry in Smethwick, near Birmingham, England. The partnership was passed to two of their sons in 1800.
Boulton Paul Aircraft Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer that was created in 1934, although its origins lay in 1914, and lasted until 1961. The company mainly built and modified aircraft under contract to other manufacturers but it had a few notable designs of its own, such as the ill-conceived Boulton Paul Defiant.
Boulton Paul Balliol The Boulton Paul Balliol and the related Sea Balliol were monoplane military advanced trainer aircraft built for the United Kingdoms Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA) by Boulton Paul Aircraft.
Boulton Paul Defiant The Boulton Paul Defiant was an early British World War II fighter aircraft and bomber interceptor of the Royal Air Force, built by Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd. Among pilots it had the informal nickname "Daffy.
Boulton Paul Overstrand The Boulton Paul P.75 Overstrand was the last of the twin-engine biplane medium bombers of the Royal Air Force, a series that had begun during the First World War with the likes of the Vickers Vimy and Handley Page Type O.
Boumerdès Province Boumerdès (Arabic: ولاية بومرداس , Berber : Bumerdas) is a wilaya of northern Algeria, between Algiers and Tizi-Ouzou, with its capital at the coastal city of Boumerdès (formerly Rocher-Noir) just east of Algiers. It includes the municipalities of Boudouaou, Boudouaou El Bahri, Corso, Tidjelabine, Hammadi, Khemis El Khechna, Ouled Haddadj, Ouled Moussa, Larbatache, Kharrouba, Keddara, Thenia, Souk El Had, Beni Amrane, Ammal, Zemmouri, Si Mustapha, Isser, Chabet El Ameur, Timezrit, Naciria, Bordj Menaiel, Laghata, Djinet, Sidi Daoud, Ouled Aissa, Baghlia, Taourga, Ben Choud, Dellys, and Afir.
Bouna Bouna is a town in north east Côte d'Ivoire lying next to the Comoë National Park and near the Ghanaian border. The main town of the Lobi people, it is known for the vernacular architecture of the fortress-style adobe compounds in surrounding villages.
Bounce (golf) Bounce, or bounce angle, is a term used to describe the angle inscribed by the leading edge of a golfing iron (particularly a wedge), the sole of the club, and the ground. In plainer terms, bounce angle is an indication of how much the sole, or bottom-most part, of the club head lifts the leading edge.
Bounce (musical) Bounce is a musical by Stephen Sondheim with a libretto by John Weidman. Harold Prince directed the musical when it premiered on June 20, 2003 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago (interrupted by a lawsuit by Scott Rudin)"B'way Loses Its 'Bounce'" at sondheim.
Bounce (network) Bounce, often abbreviated as BNC, is used to relay traffic and connections in computer networks. Using a bouncer allows a user to hide the original source of the user's connection, providing privacy as well as providing the possibility of routing traffic through a specific location.
Bounce Back Bounce Back is the original first single from Stacie Orrico's Say It Again EP. It was released to radio in August 2002, but when Virgin Records epxressed interest in Stacie the album was re-recorded so the album could be more mainstream.
Bounce connected bounce connected is a live album by Taku Sakakibara], better known as TaQ. Most of the songs are extended versions of songs TaQ has composed for [[beatmania IIDX; The album is a live recording of bounce 9, a club event stated by TaQ.
Bounce message A bounce message, or Delivery Status Notification (DSN) message or, simply, a bounce is an automated electronic mail message from a mail system informing the sender of another message about a delivery problem. The original message is said to have bounced.
Bounce music Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music, taking off in the early 1990s, but dating back to 1980s. It is characterized by call and response party chants and dance call-outs typically sung over the "Triggaman" (from the song "Drag Rap" by the Showboys) and/or "Brown Beat" samples.
Bounce Rock Bounce Rock is a football-sized primarily pyroxene rock found on Mars by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in April 2004. The rock was named for the fact that it was struck by Opportunity as the craft bounced to a stop during its landing stage.
Bounce to This Bounce to This is an album by Karl Gordon, also known as K-Gee. The album had one minor hit with "I Don't Really Care" which peaked at #21 in the UK charts, but received more publicity for the song "Let's Get Nice" which he recorded with Melanie Blatt while they were both stoned about the joys of marihuana.
Bounce Your Boobies "Bounce Your Boobies" is a song written and performed by comedian Rusty Warren. A significant song in the feminist era of the 1960s, it has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, played every Friday on The Randi Rhodes Show on Air America Radio at the beginning of the program.
Bounced check A bounced check is a check that is returned to the depositing bank because the owner of the account in the issuing bank has insufficient funds to cover the value of the check. In the United States, usually the check writer's bank and the other bank charge the check writer a penalty for the transaction, and in some instances the writer can be charged with a criminal action.
Bouncer (comics) The Bouncer was a fictional superhero that appeared in comic books published by Fox Feature Syndicate. Created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Louis Ferstadt, the Bouncer first appeared in The Bouncer (no number, September 1944).
Bouncer (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a bouncer (or bumper) is a type of delivery, usually bowled by a fast bowler. It is pitched short so that it bounces on the pitch well short of the batsman and rears up to chest or head height (or even higher) as it reaches the batsman.
Bouncer (doorman) A bouncer (sometimes referred to as a doorman) is a person who deals with the general security of a bar, public house or nightclub. Bouncers differ from other security professionals in that they specifically deal with individuals under the influence of alcoholic beverages and are more often than not responsible for protecting people rather than property.
Bouncing bomb The bouncing bomb was a variety of depth charge style of bomb designed by Barnes Wallis of Vickers-Armstrong at Brooklands, Surrey. It was used in the famous Dambusters raid to attack major dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley during World War II.
Bouncing Ball Simulation System The Bouncing Ball Simulation System is a program for the Mac OS that provides a physically accurate rendering of the motions of a ball impacting with a sinusoidally vibrating table. The program adheres to all the Macintosh interface guidelines, thus making simulations easy to run and examine.
Bouncing Boy Bouncing Boy is a fictional character which originated in the comic books of the DC Universe, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century. He is Chuck Taine of Earth, and he has the power to inflate like a ball and bounce.
Bouncing coins The bouncing coin game is a drinking game apparently related to Quarters, played in the UK. It is best played with six to eight people, ideally seated around a round table with a certain amount of space around it.
Bouncing stones The Bouncing Stones Site or beach is in the Daintree National Park in the far north of Queensland, Australia. The site is sacred to the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginals of the area and was an area where the women of the tribe discussed their secret women's business.
Bouncy techno Bouncy techno (also known as happy gabber, funcore, or tartan techno - see terminology) is a rave hardcore dance music style circa 1992, mostly emanating from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Originally, it was influenced by the music found in the scene in the north of the United Kingdom (Scotland, North East England and Northern Ireland), where European (mostly from Belgium and Italy) produced techno was widely played.
Bound & Gagged (magazine) Bound & Gagged magazine was published by the Outbound Press. The magazine was dedicated to the interests of gay bondage and discipline practictioners and provided articles about actual encounters, fictional encounters, techniques, fantasies and images of bound and gagged men.
Bound (film) Bound is a 1996 neo-noir film about a woman who longs to escape her relationship with a Mafioso; when she meets the alluring drifter hired to renovate the next-door apartment, the two women begin an affair and hatch a scheme to make off with $2 million of Mafia money. It was the first film directed by the Wachowski brothers and earned them the chance to direct The Matrix.
Bound And Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America This 1996 book by Laura Kipnis attempts to approach pornography (and various responses to pornography) in a new way, focusing not on whether or not pornography is a serious social ill, but rather on what its function might be, both in the lives of its audiences and in the lives of those who seek to ban or suppress it.
Bound Brook (NJT station) Bound Brook is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Bound Brook, New Jersey. The station building on the north side of the tracks is now a restaurant and one on the south side is now privately owned.
Bound Brook School District The Bound Brook School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Prekindergarten through twelfth grade from Bound Brook, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
Bound High is a cancelled game for the Virtual Boy consists on manuveuring Chalvo, a robot that can roll itself up into a bouncing ball, around a series of levels while avoiding various hazards. Bound High would have been the first second-generation game for the Virtual Boy, but the poor sales of the console caused to be put on hold numerous times before eventually being cancelled altogether.
Bound monster The bound monster is an important motif in Norse mythology. The theme is that of an enemy of the gods who is bound or restrained in some way but destined to break free during the time of Ragnarök to cause destruction.
Bound state In physics, a bound state is a composite of two or more building blocks (particles or bodies) that behaves as a single object. In quantum mechanics (where the number of particles is conserved), a bound state is a state in the Hilbert space that corresponds to two or more particles whose interaction energy is negative, and therefore these particles cannot be separated unless energy is spent.
Bound Together Bound Together is an album of 32 arrangements using material from the Super Nintendo game EarthBound, material originally composed by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka. The intent of the album was to involve people from several different areas of the amateur video game music arrangement community, represented on the album by artists from OneUp Studios, VGMix, OverClocked ReMix and OverLooked ReMiX.
Boundary (topology) In topology, the boundary of a subset S of a topological space X is the set of points which can be approached both from S and from the outside of S. More formally, it is the set of points in the closure of S, not belonging to the interior of S.
Boundary case The term boundary case is frequently used in software engineering to refer to the behavior of a system when one of its inputs is at or just beyond its maximum or minimum limits. It is frequently used when discussing software testing.
Boundary component In topology a boundary component of a compact surface is a connected component consisting of boundary points of a surface. A point in any surface is either a boundary point, if it has a neighborhood homeomorphic to a half-disk, or an interior point, if it has a neighborhood homeomorphic to a disk.
Boundary conformal field theory In theoretical physics, boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is a conformal field theory defined on a spacetime with a boundary (or boundaries). Different kinds of boundary conditions for the fields may be imposed on the fundamental fields; for example, Neumann boundary condition or Dirichlet boundary condition is acceptable for free bosonic fields.
Boundary Commission (Ireland) The Boundary Commission was established by the Anglo-Irish Treaty that ended the Anglo-Irish War in 1921. Its purpose was to decide on the precise delineation of the border between the Irish Free State, which had seceded from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Northern Ireland which was to remain part of the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Boundary Commission (United Kingdom) In the United Kingdom, the four Boundary Commissions are responsible for determining the boundaries of House of Commons constituencies. There is one Boundary Commission each for England, Scotland, Wales (Welsh: Comisiwn Ffiniau i Gymru), and Northern Ireland.
Boundary Committee for England The Boundary Committee for England is an independent body in England responsible for defining borders for local elections; and for conducting reviews of local government areas. It is a committee of the Electoral Commission.
Boundary Country The Boundary Country is a historical designation for a district in southern British Columbia lying, as its name suggests, along the boundary between Canada and the United States. It lies to the east of the southern Okanagan Valley and to the west of the West Kootenay.
Boundary Estate The Boundary Estate is a housing development, formerly opened in 1900, in the East End of London, England. It is situated in the north western corner of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and on the boundary with Shoreditch, in the London Borough of Hackney.
Boundary change recommendations for the next UK general election The Boundary Commissions are conducting a periodic review of constituency boundaries in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The previous review was completed in 1995, and this one must be completed by 2007.
Boundary Islet Boundary Islet is an islet about 60,000 square metres in size in the Hogan Group of islands and islets at latitude 39°12' S, south of the Wilson's Promontory, the southernmost part of both mainland Australia and mainland Victoria. The boundary between Victoria and Tasmania is a parallel similarly at latitude 39°12'; on it is thus Tasmania's only land boundary, and at 85 metres long it the shortest land border between any Australian states.
Boundary layer In physics and fluid mechanics, the boundary layer is that layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface. In the atmosphere the boundary layer is the air layer near the ground affected by diurnal heat, moisture or momentum transfer to or from the surface.
Boundary layer control In aeronautical engineering, boundary layer control (BLC) refers to a number of methods of controlling the boundary layer of air on the main wing of an aircraft. In doing so, parasitic drag can be greatly reduced and performance likewise increased, while the usable angle of attack can be greatly increased, thereby dramatically improving lift at slow speeds.
Boundary marker A boundary marker or boundary stone is a robust physical marker that identifies the start of a land boundary or the change in a boundary, especially a change in a direction of a boundary. They have often been used to mark critical points on boundaries between countries or local administrations but have also been used to mark out the limits of private land-holdings especially in areas where fences or walls are impractical or unnecessary.
Boundary Peak Wilderness The Boundary Peak Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the White Mountains of Esmeralda County, in the western section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately 10,000 acres (40 km²), and is administered by the Inyo National Forest.
Boundary representation In computer-aided design, boundary representation—often abbreviated as B-rep or BREP—is a method for representing shapes using the limits. A solid is represented as a collection of connected surface elements, the boundary between solid and non-solid.
Boundary Ranges The Boundary Ranges, also known in the singular and as the Alaska Boundary Range, are the largest and most northerly subrange of the Coast Mountains. They begin at the Nass River, near the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle in the Canadian province of British Columbia and run to the Kelsall River, near the Chilkoot Pass.
Boundary Sound Boundary Sound is the local radio station (Restricted Service Licence) radio station run by Boundary Sound Limited in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. It broadcasts from studios in the centre of Newark on 87.
Boundary Street Boundary Street is a three-lane one-way street in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It runs in the eastbound direction starting at its intersection with Tung Chau Street in the west, and ending at its intersection with Prince Edward Road West in the east, near the former Kai Tak Airport.
Boundary Treaty of 1970 The 1970 Boundary Treaty between the United States and Mexico settled all then pending boundary disputes and uncertainties related to the Rio Grande (RĂ­o Bravo del Norte) border. The most significant dispute remaining after the Chamizal Settlement in 1963 involved the location of the boundary in the area of Presidio, Texas, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua.
Boundary value problem In mathematics, a boundary value problem consists of a differential equation and the initial or boundary values required to solve the equation. The solution to the differential equation will not only satisfy the differential equation everywhere inside the boundary but will also satisfy the boundary conditions themselves.
Boundary Waters The Boundary Waters is a region of wilderness and semi-wilderness lakes, rivers, and forests straddling the border between Minnesota (USA) and Ontario (Canada), west of Lake Superior. The Boundary Waters is often used within the U.
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or BWCA, sometimes simply the bee-dub) is a 1.09 million acre wilderness area within the Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota (USA) under the administration of the U.
Boundary Waters-Canadian Derecho The Boundary Waters-Canadian Derecho, also commonly called the Boundary Waters Blowdown, was an international derecho that occurred during the afternoon and evening hours of July 4 and the early morning hours of July 5, 1999. It traveled 1300 miles (2100 km) and lasted 22 hours.
Boundary-layer thickness In a fluid with velocity flowing over a surface or a body moving through a fluid, viscous effects are limited to regions with fluid shear. Consider a stationary body with flow over it such that the flow is steady.
Boundary-Similkameen Boundary-Similkameen was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It spanned the Boundary Country, around the towns of Grand Forks and Rock Creek west including Oliver and Osoyoos to the Similkameen valley towns of Keremeos and Princeton.
Boundary-work In science studies, boundary-work is a term used to refer to instances in which boundaries, demarcations, or other divisions between fields of knowledge are created, advocated, attacked, or reinforced. Academic scholarship on boundary-work has emphasized that such delineations often have high stakes involved for the participants, and carries with it the implication that such boundaries are flexible and socially constructed.
BoundCon BoundCon is an annual BDSM convention and trade show held in Munich, Germany, around the middle of June. It features live performances by bondage models and bondage riggers, exhibition of BDSM literature and video suppliers, and a "VIP area" with an exclusive buffet.
Bounded complete poset In the mathematical field of order theory, a partially ordered set is bounded complete if all of its subsets which have some upper bound also have a least upper bound. Such a partial order can also be called consistently complete, since any upper bound of a set can be interpreted as some consistent (non-contradictory) piece of information that extends all the information present in the set.
Bounded operator In functional analysis (a branch of mathematics), a bounded linear operator is a linear transformation L between normed vector spaces X and Y for which the ratio of the norm of L(v) to that of v is bounded by the same number, over all non-zero vectors v in X. In other words, there exists some M > 0 such that for all v in X,
Bounded pointer In computer science a bounded pointer is a pointer that is augmented with additional information that enable the storage bounds within which it may point to be deduced. This additional information sometimes takes the form of two pointers holding the upper and lower addresses of the storage occupied by the object to which the bounded pointer points.
Bounded set (topological vector space) In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a set in a topological vector space is called bounded or von Neumann bounded, if every neighborhood of the zero vector can be inflated to include the set. Conversely a set which is not bounded is called unbounded.
Boundedness The term bounded appears in different parts of mathematics where a notion of "size" can be given. The basic intuitive meaning common to all of them is that something is of finite size, and that this is the case if it is smaller than some other object that has a finite size.
Bounding Bounding is the activity of adhering to all the requirements of installing and/or using safety-related products and items in conformance with an active certification listing that has been issued by an organisation that is nationally accredited both for testing and product certification. It is the exclusive means to establish due diligence for goods and services whose use is mandated by a building code or a fire code.
Bounding interval hierarchy A bounding interval hierarchy is a partitioning data structure similar to that of bounding volume hierarchies or kd-trees. Bounding interval hierarchies can be used in high performance (or real-time) ray tracing and may be especially useful for dynamic scenes.
Bounding mine A bounding mine is an anti-personnel mine designed to be used in open areas. When tripped, a small propelling charge launches the body of the mine 3-4 feet into the air, where the main charge bursts and sprays shrapnel at roughly waist height.
Bounding Overwatch Bounding overwatch, also known as leapfrogging or simply bounding, is the military tactic of alternating movement of coordinated units to allow, if necessary, suppressive fire in support of offensive forward movement or defensive disengagement. As members of a unit (element to platoon level) take an overwatch posture, other members advance to cover; these two groups continually switch roles as they close with the enemy.
Bounding sphere In mathematics, given a non-empty set of objects of finite extension in n-dimensional space, for example a set of points, a bounding sphere for that set is an n-dimensional solid sphere containing each of these objects.
Bounding volume In computer graphics and computational geometry, a bounding volume for a set of objects is a closed volume that completely contains the union of the objects in the set. Bounding volumes are used to improve the efficiency of geometrical operations by using simple volumes to contain more complex objects.
Bounds Green Bounds Green is an area in the north-east of London, in the London Borough of Haringey. Parts of Bounds Green are also known as New Southgate, but most of New Southgate lies in London Borough of Enfield to the north west.
Bounds checking In computer programming, bounds checking is the name given to any method of detecting whether or not an index given lies within the limits of an array. For example, accessing index 25 on an array of size 10 would be caught by bounds checking as an invalid index, because it does not lie within the specified size limit of the array.
Bounds-checking elimination In computer science, bounds-checking elimination is a compiler optimization useful in programming languages or runtimes that enforce bounds checking, the practice of consistently checking every index into an array to verify that the index is within the defined valid range of indexes. Its goal is to detect which of these indexing operations do not need to be validated at runtime, and eliminating those checks.
Bountiful Grain and Craig Mountain Railroad The Bountiful Grain and Craig Mountain Railroad is a Class III shortline railroad operating between Spalding and Cottonwood, Idaho, along the former route of the Camas Prairie Railroad. Spalding is located about 10 miles ( km) east of Lewiston along Idaho's western border with Washington.
Bountiful Harvest Bountiful Harvest is a book by University of Houston economics professor Thomas R. DeGregori, debunking what he calls "anti-science environmental activists", and arguing for the employment modern agricultural innovations such as bioengineered foods, which he claims have increased life expectancy, crop yields and generally improved human well-being.

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